Host Organization:  Ecovision Law
Hot Topic: Legal issues for ENGOs: Governance of Not-for-Profits and Charities
Date: February 28th, 2012
Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm
Location:Honeywell Room, City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave

This session was of interest to both existing not-for-profits and charities, and those considering incorporation and charitable status. Lawyers Stephen Hazell and Sarah Jackson from Ecovision Law provided an overview of: Steps to creating a not-for-profit corporation, and the benefits and drawbacks of incorporation; Steps to obtaining charitable status, and the benefits and drawbacks of becoming a charity; New federal and Ontario laws modernizing corporate governance of not-for-profits, and challenges these changes pose for existing
not-for-profits.